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In this talk with Darren Hardy, author Michael Simmons discusses why people tend to undervalue their personal networks.

“In most of personal development, you’re focusing on a goal,” he says. “You work back from a big goal going backwards to specific steps…whereas relationship building is much more serendipitous and hard to predict.”

Actor, director and author Leonard Nimoy died Friday, Feb. 27, at the age of 83. This video from The New YorkTimes follows Nimoy’s iconic roles in a career that spanned decades and inspired fans all over the world.

“Is there a more famous TV gesture than the Vulcan salute? Leonard Nimoy, who popularized the gesture in his role as Mr. Spock on the '60s TV series, Star Trek, both lived long and prospered before dying at the age of 83.”

Travel writer Pico Iyer has made a career out of traveling to far-off corners of the world in search of a story. In this TED Talk, he shuns that globetrotting reputation in favor of staying put.

“I found that the best way that I could develop more attentive and more appreciative eyes was, oddly, by going nowhere; just by sitting still,” he says. “And of course sitting still is how many of us get what we most crave and need in our accelerated lives—a break—but it was also the only way that I could find to sift through the slideshow of my experience and make sense of the future and the past.”